LATE BREAKING NEWS IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE

2012 CLC GRAND NATIONAL IN ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA

We just found it and it is too good to pass up!

A special viewing of the Robert Shearer Private Car Collection in Mims, FL.

Tuesday, June 12^th from 10am – 4pm

Tour includes coach transportation to and from the collection, tour & lunch.

Limited seating available on a 32 passenger coach.   The cost of the package is $38 per person.

If you will not be able to take the coach and would like to join up with the tour, the cost will be reduced and directions will be provided.

This special tour is not included on the registration form, please contact Len Berman for reservations.

The details about the Tuesday tour to Bob Shearer's collection are:

 leave hotel at 10:00 am

 lunch 11:30am-1:00pm

 tour 1:00pm-2:30pm

 arrive hotel 4:00pm

If you would like to sign up for this last minute tour, please contact Len Berman.  Remember space is limited, so please sign up quickly.

Len Berman              941-923-7436 email lsb1946@verizon.net

The 2012 Grand National is coming...
Our Nations First City Grand National

Here in Florida we seem to have been enjoying a nice spring for several months now. This time of year Floridians spruce up their gardens and snow birds come down and get sunburnt as they forget how long they have spent in the sun. 

The Florida sun has beckoned so many for so long. In 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon was the first Spanish explorer to record a visit to what is now Florida. He left Puerto Rico on March 4 and arrived on Florida coast on April 2 with three ships, the Santiago, the San Cristobal and the Santa Maria de la Consolacion. He named his discovery La Florida in honor of the Easter season and the Spanish festival of flowers.  How could those early explorers imagine the beauty and peace that can be found in Florida today. I am sure that many of the members of the Cadillac and LaSalle Club are looking forward to exploring Florida and especially St Augustine in June.

Our CLC Grand National will surely be a busy event with much to see and do. One thing I hope our members, our welcome visiting friends will be able to do is to take a few moments out of the bustle 

of the event to enjoy the flowers. From the beauty of the crape myrtle trees along the drive to our hotel or the fine oleander bushes along the highways and found in the vista of the golf course out side of our hotel. There are certainly too many flowers to name but so many to enjoy reminding us why our fair state was named La Florida!